Providing accessibility for all improves the workplace. Not just for the individual or individuals with the disabilities. Improved communication, collaboration, and efficiency.

Utilize users’ thoughts, experiences, and feedback.

Automation of accessibility tests are critical throughout the testing and implementation phases. Extensions have been designed for Chrome, Firefox, etc. to help in these phases.

Session 5: API Lifecycle Innovations

APIs are essential for today’s cloud platforms. It enables fast and efficient ways to market for developers.

Session 6: The Serverless Revolution Continues: OpenWhisk

Serverless is attractive for the same reasons virtualization and containers are desirable.

Multiple languages are supported.

Docker containers can be utilized as well.

Triggers can be mapped to actions based on rules.

These sets are then brought together into packages (collections of Actions and Feeds)

Examples of this include an action that converts weather payloads into different languages and spits it out to HTML or JSON.

Integration of OpenWhisk, Watson Conversations, and Bluemix can connect right into Slack.

Session 7: Innovations in End-to-End Application Development in Swift: Demo

There are credential, session, websocket, and many other pluggable sets of code.

Looking at adding support for DB2 and MongoDB.

Session 8: Cognitive Security Services for a Cloud Platform

Cognitive security brings about the idea that we will look to move away from alerts and to actions directly carried out by a machine. Alerts should only be necessary when a machine is unable to handle a situation.

This will not be primarily machine only or human only, it is a harmony of the two.

The data in this space is too large when millions of hosts are generating TBs of data per day and even faster in certain cases.

There is also a tremendous amount of data that is created for human digestion like analyst reporting and white papers.

A model is being built to designate usage only to hardware that has these capabilities.

Session 9: Cognitive IoT Applications at the Edge

Session 10: The Serverless Revolution Continues: The Latest From OpenWhisk

OpenWhisk is a platform that allows a developer to code without setting up an infrastructure. It was built in BlueMix.

IBM Watson Conversations allows you to give examples of the intent of a conversation in order to best learn what is desired.

The code used here is able to be used for voice, text, etc. It does not have to be rebuilt to handle it.

Session 11: Software-Defined Power for Cloud Datacenters

Power capping can be implemented on lower priority servers to move the power needs to the higher priority servers.

Session 12: Demo of Cognitive Security Services for a Cloud Platform

Trace down to exact VMs and locations with hash comparison.

Session 13: Person-Centric IoT

IBM has partnered with Harmon Internal and BMW to supply voice interaction in cars and audio systems. Examples include hotel automation in rooms with voice commands for drapes, temperature, and lights. Gesture recognition with smart watches as well.